The complexity of the Urdu language can be traced back to its origins where it gradually developed through the interaction between Persian speaking rulers. This particular dialect, affected with vocabulary from Arabic (evolving into classical Persian) commingled with local dialects of the Subcontinent to eventually take the form of a new language that acquired several names including Hindi, Dehlavi, etc., as it evolved. In its ‘Sanskritized’ form, it eventually came to be known as Hindi whereas in its ‘Persianized’ form it was known as Urdu. This paper studies the use of purely Hindi words in the ‘ghazal’, the popular poetic genre of Urdu, descended from the tradition of Persian literature.